Broadly speaking, I investigate how meaning emerges from the interaction of syntactic structure, lexical information, composition principles and context. I am particularly interested in how far this interaction is subject to crosslinguistic variation, and in the repercussions of this variation for first language acquisition and processing.

Topics I haved worked on or am working on include the crosslinguistic representation of scalarity in the grammar, the acquisition of comparison constructions, the architecture of tense and modality at Logical Form, as well as the grammar of alternatives.

What’s New?

– Joint work with Petra Augzurky and Rolf Ulrich on the “Processing Domain Restriction across Denotation Domains: The Case of Temporal Quantification”, presented as a poster at a Tübingen workshop on “Ambiguity as (Information) Gaps: Processes of Creation and Resolution” last November.

– Out in July 2018, my proceedings paper on “How Do Degrees Enter the Grammar of a Language? Language Change in Samoan from [-DSP] to [+DSP].” Proceedings of TripleA 4, ed. by Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten and Liz Coppock, pp. 106-120.